I am a Member of the Faculty in the Master of Public Administration Program at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, USA, and received my PhD in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. My academic interests are primarily in security issues, including empirical international relations and U.S. homeland security policy.

I will be presenting my paper entitled “Trust and Communication in Cross-Border Counter-Terrorism Networks” at the 1st European Conference on Social Networks, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain from July 1-4 2014. I look forward to meeting other social network researchers there!

On February 7, 2014, I presented my paper entitled “Hands-On with Prediction Markets in the Political Science Classroom” at the 2014 American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference in Philadelphia. I was in the “Integrating Technology in the Classroom” track. There were some terrific papers and presenters in my track and I look forward […]